"Guest Account" Can See Contents of Time Machine

I'm new to setting up accounts as I'm the sole user unless someone is prying. Fearing this prying into personal info, I set up a Guest Account with limited access to applications on the MacBook. Upon signing into the Guest Account to check it out I found that the Guest couldn't access any of my personal stuff when activating Mail, Address Book, Word, etc. BUT, when I clicked on the Time Machine icon, voila!, everything was there to view. That's a surprise. I double checked Parental Controls on the Guest Account and it is unchecked.
I'd appreciated any ideas and suggestions you may have.

switcher39 wrote:
I'm new to setting up accounts as I'm the sole user unless someone is prying. Fearing this prying into personal info, I set up a Guest Account with limited access to applications on the MacBook. Upon signing into the Guest Account to check it out I found that the Guest couldn't access any of my personal stuff when activating Mail, Address Book, Word, etc. BUT, when I clicked on the Time Machine icon, voila!, everything was there to view.
not everything. when you activate TM from any account (guest account or any other), you can only browse files that you have read access to anyway. in particular, if you try to look inside, say, Documents folder of the main account from the guest account you won't be able to do it either in finder or via Time machine. if you want to further restrict access of the guest account to certain folders change permissions on those folders.

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